diff --git a/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/unit-tests.txt b/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/unit-tests.txt
index 25a9a15ab8..16f2939e9f 100644
--- a/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/unit-tests.txt
+++ b/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/unit-tests.txt
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ dependencies:
 *  memcached_, plus a :ref:`supported Python binding <memcached>`
 *  gettext_ (:ref:`gettext_on_windows`)
 *  selenium_
-*  sqlparse_ (required)
+*  sqlparse_ 0.2.2+ (required)
 *  tblib_ 1.5.0+
 
 You can find these dependencies in `pip requirements files`_ inside the
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0dcfa47243..fd0104e7a7 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ setup(
     entry_points={'console_scripts': [
         'django-admin = django.core.management:execute_from_command_line',
     ]},
-    install_requires=['pytz', 'sqlparse'],
+    install_requires=['pytz', 'sqlparse >= 0.2.2'],
     extras_require={
         "bcrypt": ["bcrypt"],
         "argon2": ["argon2-cffi >= 16.1.0"],
diff --git a/tests/requirements/py3.txt b/tests/requirements/py3.txt
index bb335791f4..e48303d3ed 100644
--- a/tests/requirements/py3.txt
+++ b/tests/requirements/py3.txt
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ pytz
 pywatchman; sys.platform != 'win32'
 PyYAML
 selenium
-sqlparse
+sqlparse >= 0.2.2
 tblib >= 1.5.0